From a temple plaque: “The beautiful Khue Van Cac is a symmetrical building that represents humility, clarity and refinement. Built in 1805, its square plinth symbolizes the earth, the high two-storey tower with images of the sun represents the sky, the breezeway through the open pavilion represents the wind, while the pool in front of the pavilion symbolizes Yin in balance with the pavilion symbolizing Yang. The Khue Van pavilion links the second with the third courtyard. The absence of a gate or door in the pavilion’s design indicates that the path towards enlightenment is a continuous one without limitation of space and time."

What would it look like to live life as an intellectual?

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• Center life around writing
• Brunch with people I love

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.” (Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own)

• 07.2016 - Banaue-Batad-Sagada-Baguio
• 06.2017 - Ho Chi Minh City
• 08.2017 - Bohol-Siquijor-Dumaguete
• 07.2018 - Silay-Guimaras-Iloilo-Bacolod
• 10.2018 - Singapore Sports Tour
• 06.2019 - Siargao-Surigao
• 09.2019 - Hyderabad
• 06.2021 - Berlin
• 07.2021 - Malta
• 03.2022 - Alibijaban Island, Quezon-San J...

• Security/physical: Healthcare, financial security.
• Family and friends: can spend time with loved ones
• A feminist existing in the personal and the political.
• Rich: To love with all my intelligence
• Rilke: "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Professionally (if in bureaucracy): transformative feminist leadership.
• Make time to write; involved in projects as knowledge worker.

• Give yourself permission to care for yourself like you care for a friend. With empathy, compassion, and patience.
• You have a deep sense of responsibility for other people. This will exhaust you and eat you up, so boundaries and travel is a must to remind you that no matter how embodied you feel in your situation, these are all temporary. Travel is a death rehearsal. You are insignificant in the scale of the world.
• By hook or by crook, take vacations to do nothing. "--to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."
• Be selfish and schedule a vacation earlier than midyear. You usually have a mini or major burn out by June.
• On vacations, play Nina Simone. I wish I ...

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney-
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
• Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts by Pio Abad-
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, volume 12-
• By Sword and Fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II 3 February to March 3 1945 by Alfonso J. Aluit
• My Mother is More Than a Comfort Woman by The Mothers' Storybook Project Team, illustrated by Naoko Okimoto-
• Georgie O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch by John Loengard-
• Between the Coral Tides: A Natural History of Philippine Shores by Bejamin M. Vallejo Jr.-

• Carly Rae Jepsen
  • March 4, 2023
  • October 23, 2019
• Celine Dion
  • July 19, 2018
• Cynthia Alexander
  • January 16, 2018
  • Sometime in 2012
• Dionne Warwick
  • January 24, 2025
• Gloc-9
  • September 1, 2014
• Kylie Minogue
  • July 5, 2011
• St. Vincent

• Radical equality
• An espresso maker-
• A great reading chair
• Living up to the beautiful leather bag I bought in 2014 in a German fleamarket-
• Lady barong-
• An adequate stereo set-up for my CD collection